Illinois BCBS Can't Escape $6.6M Claim Repayment Fight

By Lauraann Wood

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois must face a specialty pharmacy's contract suit claiming the insurer illegally failed to pay out more than $6.6 million in prescription claim reimbursements for medicines the pharmacy provided to three insureds in 2021, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.

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CFPB Rips Bid To Ax $43M Debt-Relief Win As 'Frivolous'

By Joyce Hanson

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the Seventh Circuit to uphold a more than $43 million enforcement judgment against the former operator of a defunct debt relief provider, defending the agency's lower-court win in a case that has stretched across three presidential terms.

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Sanction Bids In LKQ, GM Patent Case Are Rejected By Judge

By Adam Lidgett

General Motors and a company that got the Federal Circuit to set more flexible standards for assessing whether a design patent is obvious had their requests to sanction each other shot down on Monday in a patent dispute over two vehicle fender designs.

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Split 7th Circ. Backs Ill. County's Win In COVID Vax Bias Suit

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit in a split decision Monday affirmed a summary judgment win for Cook County, Illinois, in a former hospital pharmacist's suit alleging she was unlawfully fired after she refused a COVID-19 vaccine, with the majority holding the county proved a religious exemption would've posed undue hardship and one dissenting judge saying the case should go to a jury.

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Illinois Powerhouse: Willkie

By Celeste Bott

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has parlayed a six-lawyer Chicago launch in 2020 into an operation with more than 130 attorneys, adding significant transactional practices while scoring high-profile results for clients such as Northwestern University, Google and Saks Global, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2026 Regional Powerhouses. 

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New Dem Bill Aims To Tighten Rules For Immigration Arrests

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., have introduced a new bill to clarify existing requirements for immigration arrests and codify procedures to prevent unlawful arrests and detentions.

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FTC Touts 'Dismantling' Of Corteva's Pesticide Rebates

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday touted its new settlement with Corteva Inc. for severely constricting the pesticide company's ability to pay distributors a loyalty rebate in exchange for limiting sales of cheaper generics, the latest in a string of agreements Trump-era antitrust enforcers have struck ending existing claims.

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Mom Blames McDonald's, Franchisee For Shooting Death

By Kelcey Caulder

McDonald's and a franchisee's negligence led to the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old worker at one of the fast-food chain's Georgia restaurants, the youth's mother claimed in a lawsuit filed in Gwinnett County State Court.

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7th Circ. Backs DHS Drug Informant's Conviction

By Parker Quinlan

A former confidential informant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who "went rogue" during a narcotics investigation and began selling drugs on the side cannot have his conviction overturned, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying evidence found in a warrantless search would have been discovered anyway.

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HPE-Juniper Settlement Teaches Key Tunney Act Lessons

A California federal court's recent approval of the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett Packard over its Juniper Networks acquisition offers legal practitioners some crucial lessons, including on unique tech-sector remedies for mergers and acquisitions and the continued viability of the Tunney Act, says Shubha Ghosh at Syracuse University College of Law.

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3rd Circ. Affirms Thomson Reuters' Westlaw AI Copyright Win

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld Thomson Reuters' victory against Ross Intelligence Inc. in the first U.S. appellate ruling to address whether artificial intelligence training can be fair use of copyrighted material, upholding a Delaware federal court's decision that the startup infringed Westlaw headnotes by using material derived from them to develop an AI-powered legal search tool.

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11th Circ. Won't Pause Sanctions Against Trump In IRS Case

By Jack McLoone

An Eleventh Circuit panel refused Tuesday to pause a district court's sanctions order barring President Donald Trump and others from citing the agreement he made to settle his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service while they appeal the order.

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DC Circ. Weighs Limits On Boasberg's Contempt Inquiry

By Jared Foretek

A top Justice Department official told an en banc D.C. Circuit panel that a district judge should refer former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for contempt over the 2025 deportation flights to El Salvador and move on, saying the judge had no authority to wrap others into his inquiry.

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Jack Smith Says He Won't Be Intimidated By Trump Threats

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith testified on Tuesday he "will not be silenced" by threats of prosecution by the president or others.

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Baker Botts Atty Disputes Inventor's Claim Of Defamation Deal

By Madison Arnold

A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney is pushing back on an inventor's claim that they reached a settlement agreement in the inventor's defamation suit in Florida federal court.

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Richards Layton Atty's Chancery Nomination Advanced

By Rose Krebs

A Delaware senate committee Tuesday advanced the nomination for a Richards Layton & Finger PA director to serve as a vice chancellor on the nationally important Chancery Court, with him vowing to continue the court's esteemed legacy for corporate law jurisprudence.

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